Birth Crisis

A world in crisis, the birth of space flight and a heroine for her time and ours; the acclaimed first novel in the Lady Astronaut series has someth...

In this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to...

Reducere. Midwives attending childbirth in homes and birth centers seldom encounter emergencies, but when crisis occurs, lives hang in the balance It is diff...

Charles Eisenstein explores the history and potential future of civilization, tracing the converging crises of our age to the illusion of the separ...

Reducere. "Polar bears are the charismatic icon of the Arctic environment, climate change, and global conservation. This endearing story will provide many op...

In this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to...

DescriptionToday, weather extremes brought about by anthropogenic climate change pose relentless cognitive and imaginative challenges. Beyond news ...

The world faces an environmental crisis unprecedented in human history. Carbon dioxide levels have reached heights not seen for three million years...

Reducere. Five hundred years after Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses ushered in the Reformation, bestselling author and controversial bishop and teach...

Reducere. Pivotal events in Clarissa P. Green's childhood altered the trajectory of her family relationships, personal life and career. Within the course of ...

Paul Hazard's intellectual history offers an unforgettable account of the birth of the modern European mind in all its dynamic, inquiring, and unce...

Hailed as "an absolute must-read" (Jean Twenge) and a book that "will change your kids' lives" (Jack Canfield), UnSelfie by Dr. Michele Borba expla...

Reducere. "Creation of the New" is a post-apocalyptic vision for our times. Imagery and metaphor best describe "Creation of the New." Its words reflect the p...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen a Mysterious Birth and Murder Occur at a Posh New England Prep School, Thea Kozak Finds Answers in SCHOOLED IN DEATH by Kate Flora ...

Shuffled between two different homes since birth, a young and innocent African American boy eventually loses not only a sense of acceptance and bel...

Reducere. In this shocking thriller from the author of the "blazingly intense" Reese Witherspoon book club pick and national bestseller Conviction (A. J. Fin...

Xenophon's "History" recounts nearly fifty turbulent years of warfare in Greece between 411 and 362 BC. Continuing the story of the Peloponnesian W...

Anna Fekete returns to the Balkan village of her birth for a relaxing summer holiday. But when her purse is stolen and the thief is found dead on t...

Reducere. In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction b...

Journalism entered the twenty-first century caught in a paradox. The world had more journalism, across a wider range of media, than at any time sin...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Marie OsmondAuthor: Marcia WilkieAuthor: Judith MooreMore than one out of 10 new mothers experience post-partum depression ...

Reducere. Computer manufacturing is--after cars, energy production and illegal drugs--the largest industry in the world, and it's one of the last great succe...

Reducere. Can she trust him with her baby?When Lifeline Pilot Megan Hoffman finds herself pregnant with her ex-fiancé's baby, she is determined to remain in...

Reducere. "A remarkable novel" (The New York Times) about America's first female soldier, Deborah Sampson Gannett, who ran away from home in 1782, successful...

Reducere. DescriptionA highly acclaimed anti-fascist novel, The Mortal Storm was Phyllis Bottome's dramatic warning against the warmongering, antisemitism, a...

DescriptionFor years, Chelsea Maynard has longed to be a mother. She's imagined caring for a new baby in the lovely house she shares with her husba...

Reducere. Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was a priest, a 'geologian, ' a historian of religions, and a philosopher. He was an early and significant Catholic voice ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jack VanceForeword by: Terry DowlingHere in one unforgettable volume are three of Jack Vance's best novellas-rich adventure...

From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for m...

Reducere. DescriptionThe 1950s, 60s, and 70s saw some of the most defining moments in our nation's history, and Detroit remained at the forefront during thes...

Reducere. A married couple in California grapples with race, betrayal, love, and loss when their son comes home from a Guatemalan orphanage. Contemporary art...

Reducere. How globalization is undermining sustainable social environments for children This book uses the ecological model of child development together wit...

Reducere. As they paint together on the Bavarian mountainside, young Gabriele (Ella) Münter falls in love with her married teacher, Wassily Kandinsky. While ...

When a women receives an unexpected positive pregnancy test, abortion often seems like the best or only option for a fulfilling future. Unplanned G...

Throughout her astrological career, Darby Costello has been watching the progressed Moon as it moves through the signs and the houses of the birth ...

Reducere. More than any other city in America, New York in the years after the Second World War carved out an idealistic and equitable path to the future. La...

Reducere. In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Serie...

We all face critical forks in the road-marriage, the death of a loved one, the birth of a child, or a personal health crisis. How are we to pray at...

Reducere. From the Introduction: Mother, Maiden, Crone...The birth of a daughter. A celebration. A young girl, a daughter, marking her first menstrual period...

Reducere. As modern-day muckraker Danny Schechter writes in his new introduction, exclusive to this Cosimo Classics edition: "In this era of financial crisis...

Reducere. Reveals the true role of James, the brother of Jesus, in early Christianity - Uses evidence from the canonical Gospels, apocryphal texts, and the w...

Reducere. Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the ...

Reducere. From Johannes Lichtman comes a wisely comic debut novel about a teacher whose efforts to stay sober land him in Sweden, but the refugee crisis forc...

For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid's Tale, a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are...

Superman Reborn Once upon a time, a crisis that raged across infinite Earths rocked the Superman mythos to its core. Out of its ashes rose a bold n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan LewThere are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a ...

Reducere. There are times in life when we are caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are the tim...

Reducere. This sweeping novel from the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea tells the epic story of Violeta Del Valle, a woman whose ...